Two Roads to Sumter Catton Brothers Civil War Study
Willam and Bruce Catton explore the Civil War through parallel lives of Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln. The book traces their Kentucky birthplaces to Richmond and Washington, contrasting slavery views, leadership styles, and public sentiment to illuminate why Americans chose differing freedoms and led to war.
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Willam
Bruce Catton
McGraw
Hill
Jefferson Davis
Abraham Lincoln
Kentucky
Richmond
Washington
Davis
Lincoln
Dooley’s Final Years Told By Colleagues In Memoir
James Monahan edits Before I Sleep a Signet volume recounting Dr. Tom Dooley’s last two years. Co workers describe the fund raising tours of 37 cities 49 speeches for MEDICO hospital hops and Laos trips before his death on January 18 1961 at age 34. The book follows earlier Dooley titles Deliver Us From Evil The Edge of Tomorrow and The Night They Burned the Mountain.
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Tom Dooley
Monahan
Readers Digest
Dooley
Medico
Leos
United States
Laos
Dooleys
Thes
Signet
New Paperback Picks Highlight World of Books
News Of Books surveys recent paperbacks with five titles featured. The Scar by Eric Rhodin presents interwoven lives in a New England town during a steel strike with multiple narrators. Ploesti by Dugan and Stewart follows Liberators from Africa to the Romanian oil refineries and Medal of Honor stories. Seventeen by Booth Tarkington revisits Billy Baxter and Miss Pratt in early 20th century Midwest. Lost Cities And Vanished Civilizations by Silverberg surveys Pompeii Troy Babylon Angkor Knossos and Chichen Itza. Goodbye Columbus by Philip Roth collects six stories about young affairs and endings.
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Eric Rhodin
New England
Popular
Ploesti
James Dugan
Carroll Stewart
Africa
Bantam
Booth Tarkington
Billy Baxter
Miss Pratt
Midwest
Robert Silverberg
Silverberg
Pompeii
Troy
Babylon
Angkor
Knossos
Chichen Itza
Bantam Pathfinder
Columbus
Philip Roth
Julie Harris Ventures Through Eerie and Endless Roles
New York AP reports Julie Harris expands range from Queen Victoria to a suspected-homicide French maid. She stars in The Haunting, based on Shirley Jackson's novel, then appears in Marathon ’33 a June Havoc play about the marathon dancing era.
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New York
Julie Harris
Miss Harris
Queen Victoria
Shirley Jackson
June Havoc
Toledano Details Red Plot
Ralph de Toledano argues in this book that the Soviet Union planned a multi phase communist effort to neutralize U S atomic power. He details espionage networks in New York Chicago Berkeley Los Alamos and abroad including Canada Great Britain and France.
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Ralph de Toledano Duell
Sloan and Pearce
Americas
Soviet Union
U. S
Toledano
Moscow
Toledane
New York
Chicago
Berkeley
Los Alamos
Canada
Great Britain
France
Five Volume Series Traces British Role Since 1485
A five volume short history series outlines English political and social evolution from 1485 to 1962. Each volume, by noted scholars, covers Tudor to modern times with bibliographies and illustrations. Notable volumes include 1485-1603 Tudor England and 1603-1689 crown Parliament struggles.
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England
Mentor
Menitor
G W. C. Woodward
G. E. Aylmer
University of York
J. E. Procter
Princeton University
Crown
Parliament
Walpole
Pitt
Chippendale
Wedgwood
Dryden
Pope
John W. Derry
London School of Economics
France
Gladstone
T L. Jarman
Bristol University
Disraeli
Best Selling Hardcover List
Hardcover best sellers page lists fiction titles including The Shoes of the Fisherman by Elizabeth Appleton O Hara ranked last week at number 1 and The Glass Blowers by du Maurier at number 2. Non fiction features The Fire Next Time by Baldwin at number 1 and Travels with Charley by Steinbeck at number 3 with other titles and publishers noted.
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Fisherman
Elizabeth Appleton
O'Hara
du Maurier
Grandmother
Caldwell
Seymour
Salinger
Two Year Old Killed in Wauseon Crash
A two year old, Randy J. Spasa of Metamore, was killed in a two car crash Friday at the intersection of U S 20 and Fulton County Road 43. His mother Romana, 41, was driving.
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Wauseon. Ohio
Randy J. Spasa
Metamore
U.S. 20
Fulton County
Randy
Romana
National Library Group Started In Desk Drawer
The American Library Association grew from a 1876 desk start in Melvil Dewey's Boston to a Chicago HQ in a new million dollar five story building. From 103 librarians at founding to 26 000 members today the ALA runs 6 special programs and 24 projects funded by grants totaling over 897 975 and a yearly expenditure near 2.5 million.
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National Library Group
American Library Association
Melvil Dewey
Boston
Chi
Dewey
Professional Library Association
Chicago
ALA
Philadelphia
United States
Canada
Munn
Army
Navy
Carl Milam
Association
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Newman, M
D., Rosten
Northwest Passage
Roberts
Lydia Bailey
Roberts DR. NO
Fleming the Prize
Wallace Devil Water
Seton Uhuru
Roark
Charlie
Steinbeck
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Robbins
Conflict
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Russia
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Charley
Hopper and Brough
Hudson
Publishers’ Weekly
Cago
Ralph Munn
Carnegie Library
Pittsburgh
Frederick Wagman
University of Michigan
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Troup
Willett
Drexel Triune
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Warwick
N. Broad
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